Video games are way oversubscribed as a profession. Until millions of boys stop growing up wanting to be game designers, it will always be that way.

Bioware have way to much 'inbreeding' between their games. They'll bring a character in to do an hour for Dragon Age, an hour for Mass Effect and an hour for Star War The Old Republic at the same time, which while economically efficient makes all their games feel even more the same.

Not every game has to be realistic. Some overdone cops-and-robbers pew pew does not require a deep look into the nature of police militarisation in America.

My apologies. I thought the 2m estimate was for Berlin alone, and the 8m was for the whole country (or Russian sector anyway). Still, I think the point stands that this is not a new occurrence.

What upsurge? I would argue that there has been an upsurge in *reporting* on these incidents. The idea that violence against women is greater today than at other times is frankly ridiculous. The mass rapes during the Bosnian War by different ethnic groups, the rape of 8 million German women by Soviets after WW2,…

You genuinely think this horrible stuff in India didn't go on before there was porn? It went on, it was just considered so mundane they didn't even report onto it until feminism has reached them in the past few decades.

Sony has been making losses for a LONG time. It's not greedy short term capitalists' fault that their shares have been on a general decline for literally years now.

Does Boycotting mean you'll actually stop playing their games, or just pirate them.

Some ideas for future Kotaku headlines:

I don't blame them for not saying anything- they would be crucified for being honest in this situation. It's a sad day when not including a female PC is a heinous crime in the eyes of the gaming press.

haha, well it's one of Reynolds' best, so it can't be torture to have to read it again! What do you think of his newest series so far- the one that starts with Blue Remembered Earth or whatever it is?

Yeah, but then again weren't there those 'voluntary tyrannies' in which people had given up their right to vote for the opportunity to live in them or something?

Precisely. People voted for their Local MPs, which are grouped into parties, which allied into a coalition government as exist in dozens of other countries around the world, and have existed in the UK before too.

The Prefect portrayed a system of government that was more like the 'seasteads'. Hundreds of individual stations, some totalitarian, some democratic, some monarchist, etc.. The Prefects were just some kind of overall police force type thing, I think.

Just because *you* didn't vote for someone doesn't mean other people didn't.

I'm unsure why someone who "always dreamed of going to E3" doesn't understand the basics of game design.

That 48% of gamers who are women are spread amongst a very different demographic. Women form the majority of players in many social games, some casual/puzzle titles, lots of mobile titles, and The Sims. They are nowhere near 48% of core action-adventure titles like Assassin's Creed. I will dig up the gamasutra…

Certainly. But the law takes ages to catch up, as do consumers. A lot of bank window people still exist because old people refuse to use machines for example. Some people have to stake their reputation on it. And for now, Doctors still have to translate 'my knee fucking hurts and I have sleeping problems…

Is it 50%, is it 80%, is it 100% if Kurzweil is right about AI in 2029? We still have train drivers, which have been obsolete, technology wise, for about 30 years. We still have conductors that check tickets onboard trains, even though we've been able to put ticketing machines at platforms or even on train doors,…

I think the Singularity will be the 'flying car' of the 21st century. Maybe one day, just like the flying car, we make rudimentary AI, but it won't be useful or valuable for mankind.